When I first met "Henry" in 1986 he was plastered to a light pole.
He was there in the form of his face on a flier announcing his appearance in the Chicago International Film Festival in "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer." On the flier was a quote —...

Rain came down hard on Friday, Oct. 9, in New York and with it a deluge of hungry fans waiting to see their favorite characters from AMC's "The Walking Dead" at iconic Madison Square Garden, nearly filling the entire arena and aligning perfectly with...

Burt Reynolds’ rare public appearances are becoming slightly less rare. The 79-year-old “Boogie Nights” and “The Longest Yard” star – who has spent much of the last few years out of the spotlight – is scheduled to appear Aug. 22 at Wizard World Comic...

Suffering from zombie withdrawal after "The Walking Dead" season finale last month?
Need something to take the undead edge off until we see what happens to Carl, his annoying hat and the rest of the gang?
Look no further than the Illinois Department...

So, you don't consider it the national pastime any more. Picky, picky, picky.Baseball still brings out the kid in me, even though my rotator cuff disagrees. It's a rite of spring as well as a game. Just ask Kevin Costner, who starred in at least four...

Actor Michael Rooker stood in his hotel suite's bathroom staring at a coffee cup with the concentration of a jeweler inspecting a diamond.
"You want to know how I act?" he asked in his trademark deep growl before holding the cup under a running...

Like the '70s cassette mix tape so dear to its hero, "Guardians of the Galaxy" scavenges all sorts of "greatest hits" precedents, from "Iron Man" on down, to come up with its own summertime fling. It's looser, scruffier and more overtly comic than the...

*** (out of four)There may never be a better use of Vin Diesel than providing the voice of a “humanoid plant” named Groot who can only say, “I am Groot!” The casting brings Diesel in on the joke of his own limited abilities (nobody saw his best work in...

Here’s your opportunity to say hello to some of “The Walking Dead” characters you have said goodbye to.
Walker Stalker Con will take place March 14-16 at Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont. The zombie convention will include past and...

Wizard World Chicago Comic Con is upping its game again this year, bringing Michael Shannon, Zachary Quinto, Norman Reedus, John Barrowman, WWE Superstar CM Punk and comic legend Stan Lee to the Aug. 8-11 convention in Rosemont.Several of those names...

Dougray Scott, Robson Green and former Chicagoan Milauna Jackson will star in the third Cinemax season of "Strike Back."The British actors recently joined series regulars Philip Winchester, Sullivan Stapleton, Michelle Lukes and Liam Garrigan in South...

Norman Reedus took a few minutes out of his busy schedule at San Diego Comic Con July 13 to accept his award for winning RedEye's 2011 Best TV Character Tournament.Actually Daryl Dixon, Reedus' character in AMC's "The Walking Dead," was voted "best" by...

It was relatively easy to convince Hollywood writer/director James Gunn to sign on to his first video game project. All he had to do was watch a short video clip of a game in which a high school cheerleader chops up zombies with a chainsaw."It was like...

Fans of AMC’s “The Walking Dead” were thrilled this summer when the Season 2 trailer hit San Diego Comic-Con and the web. It began with dozens of hungry zombies shuffling after Shane Walsh (Jon Bernthal), who stumbles just as the flesh eaters are reaching...

It's not always commented on, but success in Hollywood can be as much of a danger to creativity as failure. Latest case in point? "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2."
When the original "Guardians of the Galaxy" debuted in 2014 its anarchic B-picture...

Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” brought so many guests to movie theaters this weekend that the live-action remake became the biggest box-office opener so far of the year, and the seventh-best debut of all time.
The picture brought in an impressive $170...

Marvel just dropped a bit of footage from its next, big comic book movie “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.” And it’s got all the things fans loved from the original — jokes, tunes, aliens and Groot!
Set to the sounds of “Fox on the Run” from Sweet,...